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[Captivate General] lilo777:
I think you confuse two different things. It's hard to believe that Apple developed iPhone GUI "the way you wanted it". It's just a matter of familiarity. It's always easier to use the tools/GUI you already know than the ones you do not know. It probably took you 3 years to get there and now you are familiar and comfortable with iPhone. It's true for everyone. Give it a week or two and you'll learn how to use Captivate too. And BTW, I am knew to Android myself and I am going through the learning curve too. My first impression was - how the damn phone could be so complicated! But after a day of use I am thinking: and that's all? There is not really that much to these smart phones after all. I think that all these interfaces are about the same. It's impossible to compare familiar interface with an unfamiliar one. In the latter there is too many annoying things (that is until we learn why the things were designed the way they were and use them right).

As far as this specific issue is concerned, as I understand the standard interface on Captivate is just as good as on iPhone. To get to the list of "friends":

* Home

* Phone

* Favorites

This gives you the list of favorites and the list of most frequently called persons. BTW, I just learned this myself :)
[Captivate General] rsohne:
oldfossil

I traded in an iPhone 4 yesterday for the captivate and have to say yesterday was a bit frustrating. Using an iPhone for the last year and a half from Windows mobile had caused me to be stupid. Its not that its harder but a different mindset. On the iphone there was one way to do something while on android many ways to skin the same cat. I personally enjoy my new freedom.:D Give it 30 days and if you truly don't like it trade it in and get the iPhone 4.
[Captivate General] oldfossil:
When I got my iPhone, I picked it up and started using it. There was no real learning curve really. Imported my contacts from Outlook (there were there from my WM6 tilt phone), put in my email accounts, synced my bluetooth, and started using the phone.

I find the Captivate to be kludgy, but yeah, if I spend some time with it I may be able to get to work the way I want. And if I get rid of the phone and FroYo is all that it's supposed to be I may wish I hadn't gotten rid of it. In the mean time I can't even get Kies to connect to my PC on the damn thing.
[Captivate General] TexUs:
Screw Outlook... Start using GMail and then use Google Sync to just have all your stuff synced over the air, and then you also gain the ability to use Google Voice as well, which gains you visual voicemail and transcription messages.

I used to love Outlook (still do) but when Google's stuff works so well together it just doesn't make sense.

Now, maybe you're in a business environment and don't have that flexibility, but IIRC there are easy sync Outlook tools out there.

I question why you left the iPhone then?

I'd also venture to guess you're just "used" to the iPhone. I think after you learn Android and how much more flexibility you have you'll gain more usability out of it.

Exactly. There's at least half a dozen ways to quickly access contacts... That might seem "complicated" (maybe it is), but... You get to CHOSE what you like. It's not just what Steve Jobs tells you what you want to use.

The menu system is also very easy to use as well... Alot like the iPhone, but I think it's even easier IMO.

Turn on USB debugging mode and use that... Simple Drag+Drop.
[Captivate General] doug_s:
Shortest Alternative

I haven't seen a response that spells this out, so:

Tap and hold an open space on your home screen, and wait for the menu to pop up.

From the "Add to Home Screen" menu, choose Shortcuts

Choose Direct Dial from the next menu

Now select a contact, and then the specific number you want to use

It will create an icon on the home screen, using the contact's avatar image if they have one, that will immediately dial the selected number when tapped.

You can place such direct-dial shortcuts on any of your home screens.

I used an iPhone for almost three years. Don't give up on Android too quickly, as it has really grown on me in the last 6 weeks.
[Droid Incredible General] barry1685:
Has anyone noticed a constant choppiness when watching flash videos? Any ideas on how to maybe fix this?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark.m.moran:
Hi guys,

I have a Nexus One running 2.2 and was thinking about swapping it for a HTC HD2 and then putting Froyo on it myself. I like the fact that the HD2 has a bigger screen and pretty much the same spec as the Nexus One.

Does anyone know how the HTC HD2 runs after putting Froyo in it? Is it as fast as the N1 with Froyo? Is everything working like callls Wifi etc.? Would you do the swap I am about to do or do you think I'm mad?

Cheers,

M
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wylker:
I honestly hated my HD2. Good luck :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark.m.moran:
Cheers Wylker......can I ask why though? What handset you got now man?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mokurex:
Probably because of windows mobile. =)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark.m.moran:
Cool! Anyone have one and put Froyo on it? Is it hard to do guys?

M
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiensinh99:
i did tried it on my HD2 last night . software still have alot not respone error not smooth running yet. had to force stop alot the screen look washed out compare to nexus one battery not recognized. and it running hot. i did see the advance of having larger screen thought.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark.m.moran:
Thank you tiensinh99. Do you have a link for a tutorial on how to put Froyo on it??
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rjhay22:
Larger screen... if you prefer that, that's probably the only thing that makes it better than the Nexus. The biggest downside is it being a windows based phone. Wait for galaxy S to come out for T-Mobile. Or go for EVO if you want a bigger screen, that would be a smarter way to go.

If I was to start all over though, and had a choice between those devices ... I'd buy a nexus one once again.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiensinh99:
the instruction how to install is in the LEO general forum. also there r the dual boot intruction.

samsung galaxy S already came out on tmobile. and i'm still choice N1 over HD2 every time.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark.m.moran:
Cheers guys.....I think I have my answer.

M
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] player911:
Wasn't there another thread where someone was looking to swap his HD2 for an Nexus One?

Maybe these 2 should meet?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728343
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osugsxr:
thinking of trading nexus one for iphone 3gs and htc hd2, both phones are unlocked. Would this trade be worth doing? I ve used an unlocked, jailbroken iphone before pretty solid, wouldnt mind playing with the hd2 for awhile.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dudebro:
I couldn't stand using my friends HD2 for more than 5 minutes.

wouldn't trade my nexus for that phone even if it could transform into optimus prime...

or build an island and transform into a jet and fly me to that island.. i don't care. ;)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blablum:
I would not do that. While it is neat to see android running on a a wm phone, it would never be nearly as stable as a real android phone. I had a touch diamond and I could never use android on a daily basis, had awful battery life and all kind of other problems
[HD2 General] nrfitchett4:
My 16gb sd card that came with the phone corrupted in less than 2 weeks. I called t-mobile to see about a replacement. They told me I had to call HTC and gave me a number to call.

I called HTC this morning and they refused to replace the card. They told me that since I formatted the card in an attempt to fix the piece of crap, I voided my warranty. I told them that was ridiculous since the phone said the card needed to be formatted and the phone came with formatting software. They said there was nothing they could do.

Luckily I bought 3 hd2's for the family so I am calling back with a different SN. If they don't get me a new card, I am taking my son's back to walmart for exchange (just got it last week).
[Captivate General] ant1171984:
GPS Question: I know there is the paid AT&T navigator and also google maps. My question is, on google maps can you get voice guided turn my burn for free to avoid the $9.99 monlthy navigator subscription? If not is there any other free voiced guided turn by turn solutions in the android market for download?

App Quest: I heard that you only have "x" amount of memory to downald apps REGUARDLESS of the amount of memory you have on the phone or added by a memory card. Can someone shed some light on this for me.
[Captivate General] derek4484:
Yes you can. Go to the market and download the update that's available for Google Maps. Then once in Google Maps go Navigate and it will tell you to download and install text-to-voice. AFter doing that, you get a "Navigation" icon in the applications folder, use that one instead of the AT&T Navigation one.
[Captivate General] sn1per420:
Yep, Just tested it out today (after removing the ATT nav app), and it works great. Took a while to pick up a GPS lock since its cloudy out today, but once that was sorted out, it worked just fine.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rumz82:
Hi guys. I was looking around for some KITT(Knightrider) wallpapers and came across this GIF image. Its not 480*800 but it looks great as a wallpaper for S2U2. Try it......;)

TIP: In S2U2 settings for GIF wallpapers, slow down the speed for the GIF animation a little bit to get a proper effect.

Let me know if was a good find!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rumz82:
So, over 200 views, but no one either likes it, or hates it! :D Hmmmmm.......
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] majorassface:
I liked it, thanks RUMZ!!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] SiL3nTKiLL:
i liked it too!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rumz82:
Thanks guys! Glad u liked it.... :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] TheATHEiST:
Source: pocketnow.com

As Chuong reported earlier today, a handful of tech reviewers have gotten to spend a couple of weeks with a Windows Phone 7 prototype devices made by Samsung called the Taylor. Overall the sentiment towards Windows Phone 7 is positive: reviewers agree that the operating system is generally well thought out, that it performs very well (with nearly no lag when jumping around the operating system), and that it has the potential to be a true contender in the mobile platform space.

After digging through several of these reviews, it's clear that there are a handful of features still missing from Windows Phone 7, some of which will be addressed by the time the platform launches this fall, but many of which will not. Here's a list:

- No Twitter integration

- No copy and paste

- No third-party multitasking

- No Flash, Silverlight, or HTML5 support in the browser

- No dedicated YouTube application

- No robust document editing capabilities in Office

- No way to stop Facebook contacts from mixing with global contacts

- No global email inbox

- No threaded email

- No organization of the full program list (it's alphabetical)

- No way of knowing if a long press is available

- No universal search

Some of these aren't too big of a deal and are very specific to use case scenarios that not everyone will experience (like adding multiple email accounts to a phone, etc). But some of the big ones like the lack of multitasking and Twitter integration could provide a reason for potential buyers to go with another smartphone platform.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
You can do it relatively easily if you don't use Facebook directly but via Live, I think.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
My 2 cents:

- No Twitter integration

Stupid when Facebook is there

- No copy and paste

Discussed so many times yet still unbelievable.

- No third-party multitasking

May be in the future?

- No Flash, Silverlight, or HTML5 support in the browser

Very bad indeed.

- No dedicated YouTube application

Will be I believe.

- No robust document editing capabilities in Office

Crazy.

- No way to stop Facebook contacts from mixing with global contacts

That will be a really annoying thing. What if I DON'T have Facebook??!!

- No global email inbox

??

- No threaded email

I don't care.

- No organization of the full program list (it's alphabetical)

Again a stupid, strange step BACKWARDS

- No way of knowing if a long press is available

Hmmm....

- No universal search

Awesome :-(

To sum it up, well....

I have to touch it of course.

But comparing this to WM 6.5 I see the main change will be interface itself.

Regarding functionality - so many things missing as hell.
[Windows Phone 7 General] TheATHEiST:
yup, W7 is looking like a bag of sh*t
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
There's already several Twitter apps for WP7 - The notification system allows seamlessly integration.

Read the 2000 other threads on this -- c&p is pointless, and not needed. I'm tired of repeating the arguments in every bloody thread.

Same as above.

Wrong. No HTML5 support, mainly because it's still a draft.

Write one, or let Google do that. I don't think Google would like Microsoft to write one for sure.

Invalid. Better Office integration than any other phone on the market.

Invalid, as there's no public phones out, you can't know this, thus it's a lie.

Wrong

The email application ain't done yet, where's your proof?

Use the search-button

Neither is on any other phone in the world.

Uniform search-api and seach-button support for all applications. Universal makes little sense.

Multitasking is the LEAST important problem. When do you fools start realizing this?

And again, Twitter is just yet-another-application. Android and iPhone don't have Twitter support either, there's just 20 different Twitter apps for each platform.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
@Windcape

As well as you have great valid points,

I must say that this of your sentence:

"c&p is pointless, and not needed. I'm tired of repeating the arguments in every bloody thread."

Where did you get that?!

It's a CRUICAL feature on any device.

Maybe you're this person who don't use it, maybe you never do

any serious stuff on your device, but why do you spread here such a false and pointlesss information?! It's the same as you'd say that a phone doesn't need a speaker.

It's the basic function, present on any mobile OS since 2000,

and also supported even by those who wanted to omit it and tell people they know better.

It's a BASIC function with any txt work, whether it's office, mail.

Man, how hard is it to get it? Or what false logic brought you to this senseless conclusion?

I hope you'll never be responsible for any serious development with such false statements.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
No, it's not a crucial feature. The navigation-handlers allows for much better transitions than using c&p.

A smartphone is not a PC -- People use it differently, and copy&paste doesn't make sense. A lot of you might think it's easy to implement for text, and partially is (WP7 only supports Unicode, there's your first challenge), but for random objects (images, binary, etc.) it's a completely other story.

Instead of just repeating yet another "omg no copy&paste", then perhaps read some of the lengthy discussions about the subject, instead of believing in it in blind faith.

I would ask the relevant user groups, and have their reaction. Nerds who think they need c&p, but actually never use it, are not a relevant user group. Ask people who got a iPhone or Android if they uses copy&paste often, or if they missed it on previous versions of the iPhone. They'll probably say no.

Hell, where I need it most is in my browser, and Android's default browser have such terrible support, that it doesn't work anyway. I'd rather have a navigation-handler auto-converting emails to click-to-open-email-application links.

This argument is getting tiresome. Can we move on to something else? Like complaining about lack of socket APIs and SL4 support?
[Windows Phone 7 General] RustyGrom:
Windcape - some of those are legit. There is no way to downselect your FB friends, no threaded email, and no unified/global email inbox. See the many reviews for evidence. While it's not quite done, it's pretty darn close. They have to give the OEMs lead time in order to be able to manufacture devices with the RTM code on it.

But to the OP et al, see this post on WMPowerUsers which echos my sentiments very closely. Basically, calm down... take a deep breath.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Listen, are you reading with comprehension?!

Who gave you the right to call me nerd huh?

I think you're rather nerd who doesn't really speak on the topic.

Don't tell me or anybody else how we actually use our devices!

How do you know? Have we met?

You're incompetent troll, like somebody else stated in other thread.

Maybe go to other forums instead of telling complete lies here.

Also your sentence:

"I'd rather have a navigation-handler auto-converting emails to click-to-open-email-application links."

Has NOTHING to do with work on txt!

Please move away from here with your "maybe" and "probably".
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
If it's actually based on hands-on reviews, then I'll agree it might be considered a problem.

The thing is, half of the articles out there complaining about the phone, is basing it off data from Feburary/March, or unlocked emulators -- both I consider highly invalid.

And I'm calm, I'm just annoyed we got 50 threads with focus on multitasking and c&p, which is the most irrelevant problems there is from a developer perspective.

I find it much bigger issues that the phone only support Unicode, don't have socket APIs yet (because it runs SL2/SL3, and not SL4). And a few other things here and there which is vital to application development.

People keep nitpicking about the least important issues, which sadly removes focus from the important problems.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
We're posting on a forum for mobile hackers, that means we're nerds :)

It's more likely that technical interested people focus on more technical features.

Most people who buy a iPhone 4 don't buy it because it can do copy&paste, but because it looks awesome, and have a fantastic screen (Retina Display).

It have everything to do with regular phone use. Copying links, email addresses and phone numbers.

The phone isn't meant to be a Blackberry replacement, or a notepad replacement for editing Excel spreadsheets on the run.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
One last thing:

You can implement copy&paste internally in your application. It's just c&p data between applications that's not supported.

I guess that helps a lot for your office/spreadsheeting edition, no? ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] daniel-t:
- Twitter will be back working with Windows Live soon. Twitter changed their APIs a month or two ago, and Microsoft need to update things to make it work again.

- Copy and Paste is coming in a future update

- Multitasking is also planned to be out in a future update

- Flash is coming in a few months after launch, Silverlight we don't know about

- We may see a YouTube app come from Google after launch, if not flash will work in the browser so that's all good :)

- As a start, the Office tools on Windows Phone 7 are good for basic editing, and collaboration. More features may come, but I do question if you need much more really, with such a small screen.

- We know when adding a Google account, you can choose to add all or only some of these options: Contacts, Calendar, Email. It is possible facebook integration can be done in the same way, but I don't use facebook, so I am not too fussed. However thanks to the Quick Jump List controls, you can click the letter in the blue box, and choose a letter to find your contact. Or even press the search button to find a contact.

- I actually prefer the idea of having a separation between my Live Mail and Outlook Email inboxes, and is a great way to maintain your work life balance if you are using the Phone for work, and personal uses. You do have a combined calendar, which does make sense, because you only have on schedule at a time :)

- Threaded mail, or conversation view, will be coming, you should know this as Outlook and Hotmail now support it.

- This one I agree with, I would like a button appear below the arrow on the left, to switch to flat list, category, favourites, or alphabetical sorting, using the Quick Jump Lists.

- Well, this is a trial and error thing, you don't get told when you have a right click menu available, there is no indicator, you just expect it and find it for yourself.

- If the Hub/App doesn't have internal search, the search button will pull up bing. In future dev tools, they will provide an API to override the search button as you can the back button presently. Patience, my friend, Patience!
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Actually, these two statements contradict each other somewhat. By far the two most often reasons for me to watch a video on Youtube are a) watching embedded videos on web sites and b) getting a link in an email. Now, pray tell, how am I going to watch those videos in a third party application in a sandboxed environment without a way to open a URL directly in this application or without an ability to copy and paste this URL there? Let's say on many web sites I can search for the video if it's properly named, but what about this link in an email? Am I supposed to memorize it and type into the app? Or maybe write it down on a piece of paper?

I would certainly prefer it if links to videos opened directly in this Youtube app (or better yet, a standalone flash/video/html5/whatever player), that would be a "smartlinking" scenario that I would prefer to c&p. But that's not available either. C&P may be a kludge, but in the less than perfect world we live in those are often needed.

Now let's be consistent please. If we like the way data from multiple sources is integrated in WP7, a Twitter app isn't a perfect solution.

Twitter will be there though. It will be supported in Windows Live or separately. It's missing temporarily in the current version as Twitter changed their API or something like that.
[Windows Phone 7 General] TheATHEiST:
@Windcape

Are you a tard??

a) I didn't write the review so stop quoting me as if I wrote the list and the trying to contradict me.

b) Dont need copy and paste? are you on crack? You must be because I can see endless list or reasons why its a MUST!

c) The review is NOT from a emulator its a HANDS ON review of a prototype phone!

Also people remember this isnt a list of what will NOT be in WP7, its basically a round up of features currently still not in WP7, OBVIOUSLY its not finished and will have more to come.

Either way I still think the OS looks like sh*t, But the flashaholic in me will still end up flashing it to my HD2 when/if its ported.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
a) It's easier to quote you to respond to the points. Why is that a problem? Wasn't the whole point with quoting the important points of the article to turn them into a discussion?

b) No, and there's little reason to be rude.

c) O'rly
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
A 3rd party application will be able to register a navigation handler so you can open youtube links in a youtube application if necessary. Just like Skype plugin for PC browsers today.

Navigation handlers will also apply to emails.

Basically you'll just have to click it. Much easier than copy, change application, paste, and activate it.

Yes it is? That's how it's intended to be, and why Microsoft don't consider c&p a priority atm.

Well, on the "other" mobile platforms Twitter is just yet-another-application. If Microsoft integrates it in Windows Live, it's just better than the others.

It's not a loss either way.